Barcelona Second Testings (8/3) Day 1 - Webber rules!!

8/3/11,

Mark Webber was faster in the first day of testing at Catalunya!!

The Formula 1 teams are in Barcelona for the last test before the season starts in less than 3 weeks in Australia. This test will last for 5 days but the tests of each group will last for four days. Therefore, today in the track were found 8 out of 12 teams, as Ferrari, Mercedes, Williams and HRT will begin their program by tomorrow. 

The best time of the day belongs to Mark Webber with his Red Bull. The Australian's 1:22.544 was less than the best time of all the previous 4 days which was made by Felipe Massa. In the same time, Webber was the most active driver of the day, completing 97 laps. In fact, the fastest time was written in the table was 1:21.176 by Sergio Perez's Sauber, but the Mexican blocked the chicane to succeed it and of course that was not counted. The actual time of Perez brought him into fourth place. 

Jenson Button with his McLaren MP4-26 was the one who scored the second time the day was the only except by Webber's who went under the 1:23. Positions 3 and 5 in the table belong to Renault. The project of the team was about Nick Heidfeld to all the day in the cockpit of the R31, but a sickness of the German driver changed his plan and Vitaly Petrov led the afternoon. The Russian did not do many laps, however, he scored the third best time of the day. 

Another team that gave away his car between the two drivers were Force India. In the morning, Nico Hulkenberg had his first contact with the VJM04 and scored the ninth time while in the afternoon the car was driven by Paul di Resta, who was sixth. Shared was the day of Lotus, which gave the two drivers of the group of Air Asia GP2 chance to drive an F1 car. Davide Valsecchi came out this morning and was seventh fastest while Luiz Razia in the afternoon scored the 10th time. 

Sebastien Buemi lost the whole morning when his car of Toro Rosso stopped in one of the first rounds of the track. The Swiss came back this afternoon and did 48 laps, marking the eighth time. The ranking was closed by Jerome D 'Ambrosio with Virgin, but the project of the team today did not include efforts to achieve good time periods and remained so far behind the rest. 

The tests will continue tomorrow and the day will be more interesting as we will see in the track all the F1 teams with their cars!! 

Unofficial Tuesday test times from Barcelona:
1. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 1:22.544, 97 laps
2. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:22.910, 74
3. Vitaly Petrov, Renault, 1:22.937, 27
4. Sergio Perez, Sauber, 1:24.117, 90
5. Nick Heidfeld, Renault, 1:24.735, 20
6. Paul di Resta, Force India, 1:25.039, 38
7. Davide Valsecchi, Lotus, 1:25.406, 50
8. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 1:26.004, 48
9. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1:26.030, 31
10. Luiz Razia, Lotus, 1:26.723, 29
11. Jerome D’Ambrosio, Virgin, 1:32.060, 57

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